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Atheists & Agnostics
Showing Original Post only (View all)Are you atheist or agnostic? Why not be both? [View all]
On the one hand, I take the philosophical position the absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence.
So I'm an atheist.
But while that evidence is sufficient for plausible inference it is not absolute proof.
So I'm an agnostic.
I fully admit I cannot prove that no god exists, but I can to a pretty good job of refutation for the flavors of almighty that believers actually believe in.
But if I need to pick a label, I'll say I'm an atheist.
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MMBeilis
Nov 2024
#3
I'd like to give evolution another billion years and see whatever might exist at that point
dgauss
Nov 2024
#5
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wcmagumba
Nov 2024
#15
I'm Agnostic, because without some definite, clear message, we can't know either way...
Think. Again.
Mar 2025
#27
'Agnostic: someone whose position is that we don't, and likely cannot, know if there is a "god"'
J_William_Ryan
Mar 2025
#28